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Went bird-shooting for the first time ever a couple weeks back, two shots I really liked from the day: _DSC3854 by Tarradax, on Flickr  _DSC3721 by Tarradax, on Flickr The latter I shot at 1/30 on a friend's advice, I really loved the outcome.
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BeanTaco posted:I went to a gannet colony the other day. Oooh, that's a cool shot. InternetJunky, those shots are great, and kinda hilariously awesome. I anthropomorphize birds even though I'm not supposed to, and I can't help but imagine the bird going "yaaaaay vole! *smash* "what?!" "oh, gotta go!" To contribute to the birding (and wildlife) ethics conversation, I feel terrible for the folks who get sabotaged by doofuses who show up, scare birds, and leave. I've met some birders (only some - I've met a lot great birder people too) who are very unethical outdoor visitors; off trail, rude, entitled. Ugh. That said, I hope that folks like us (or who I presume we are) can show outdoor noobs that birds rock, and while being outside in nature they are some of the cool things you can see and not disturb.  Sorry about your AZ wildlife preserve experience dude. That's depressing. My spouse and I went to Bosque del Apache yesterday, which was beautiful and un-depressing even though I had managed to miss most of the sandhill cranes. Edit: ah poo poo, I posted without pictures, gimme a sec.
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Feb 19, 2013 18:02
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Ghost Cactus posted:Sorry about your AZ wildlife preserve experience dude. That's depressing. I'm going to hit it up again but on a weekday this time. That might not solve the making GBS threads hobo problem but it's a big park. 
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Feb 19, 2013 18:10
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I'm going to hit it up again but on a weekday this time. That might not solve the making GBS threads hobo problem but it's a big park. One of the places we go in our christmas bird count territory has, over the years, turned into a fairly large homeless encampment. Part of me resents that the place is getting more and more disturbed every year, but then I always feel like an rear end for begrudging someone moving up in the world by getting walls made of scrap plywood instead of just a tarp.
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Feb 19, 2013 19:07
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A couple eagles and a Varied Thrush cross-posted from Critter Quest  These were both out on Cape Alava, WA
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Feb 19, 2013 19:27
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I'm jealous of that varied thrush; it's beautiful.Maker Of Shoes posted:I'm going to hit it up again but on a weekday this time. That might not solve the making GBS threads hobo problem but it's a big park. My days off are weekdays. I think it's better. I'm back with (too many) pictures from yesterday! Morningtime hawk/bueto thing  DSC_4445 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Sassy Great Blue Heron with breakfast  DSC_4552 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Northern Pintails are beautiful  DSC_4687 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr  DSC_4682 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Raven  DSC_5017 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr We drove through a wildlife viewing loop and scared off a coyote momentarily; the ravens were happy to eat the dead woodchuck thing the coyote had been tearing at. (Linked for eeew.) DSC_4864 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr I want this to be a Merlin, but I bet it's a juvenile sharpie or Cooper's Hawk  DSC_4967 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Ross's Goose  DSC_5039 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr This giant Snow Goose was sleeping until a few carloads of people showed up and wandered around; it stood up and made the size difference between a Snow Goose and Ross's Goose pretty obvious  DSC_5130 edited by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr It was a good day. Lots of ducks and duckish things (Cinnamon Teal, Northern Shoveler, Bufflehead, Coots, probably more that I couldn't identify), Golden Eagle, Bald Eagle, Northen Harriers, Sandhill Cranes, Canadian Geese, American Robin, LBJs galore, some kind of Flicker, Western Scrub Jay, and lots of birds of prey I couldn't identify. Edit: We ate at The Owl Bar (apropos name) afterward. Green chile cheeseburgers and onion rings hit the spot. Ghost Cactus fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Feb 19, 2013 |
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Feb 19, 2013 22:42
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torgeaux posted:
You've actually captured a harder to find (in my experience) and much cooler  Green Heron They like to perch near the water and hunt.  Aaaaaand here's the green in the "Green Heron": 
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Feb 20, 2013 14:42
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Ghost Cactus posted:
drat, that's a good day of birding, where was all this?
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Feb 20, 2013 20:28
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A couple more from my hike At least s/he had the decency to turn the other way. 
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Feb 21, 2013 01:07
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Here's a few from today: 5D3_0073 by capacity4action, on Flickr  5D3_0030 by capacity4action, on Flickr  5D3_0100 by capacity4action, on Flickr
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Feb 21, 2013 05:41
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Duckjob, that top pelican shot is something else.neckbeard posted:drat, that's a good day of birding, where was all this? It really was, and we missed "peak" season. It was at Bosque del Apache NWR, a little over an hour south of Albuquerque.
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Feb 22, 2013 01:21
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Feb 22, 2013 17:32
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Got some decent shots today. goldeneye by philip painter, on Flickr  mallard by philip painter, on Flickr  mallard by philip painter, on Flickr  mallard/black hybrid? by philip painter, on Flickr  mallard by philip painter, on Flickr  canadian geese by philip painter, on Flickr
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Feb 23, 2013 19:58
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smallmouth posted:Got some decent shots today. Well done. I've caught a few of these side landing shots with plenty of leading negative space but the background is always poo poo.
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Feb 23, 2013 20:13
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smallmouth posted:Got some decent shots today. This is actually a male Hooded Merganser. Nice shot, they're typically pretty shy and I've never seen a good in-flight photo like that. smallmouth posted:
That's interesting. I've seen a lot of very odd looking "mutt" Mallards before, but never one quite like that. I assume the purple is just that weird iridescence that Mallards get in certain light? It may be melanistic, but I would expect the bill to be dark in that case. Good shots.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:This is actually a male Hooded Merganser. Nice shot, they're typically pretty shy and I've never seen a good in-flight photo like that. Thanks for the ID. I wasn't sure if it was a type of merganser or not. They certainly were skittish. Yeah, the other was definitely iridescent. I just happened to be at a good angle with him for a few shots.
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Peacock Peacock by HelloWorldEp1, on Flickr Egyptian Goose chick  Fluff by HelloWorldEp1, on Flickr
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So this popped up on my feed. metadata has this shot at 28mm. Now, how is this possible without some underhanded baiting like the previous Snowy?
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Maker Of Shoes posted:So this popped up on my feed.  That said, it is amazing how close you can get to these owls if you do it right. Here's a shot of an owl with my wife. This is after spending about 3 hours with the owl that day -- eventually it flew to that post by itself despite being a couple of metres away from my wife. Once you're off the threat list they really don't care much about you.  [edit] Here's the shot from her camera: 
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Feb 26, 2013 01:09
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Where's the beak? On the subject of close rare birds, this Eurasian Wigeon came right up to me at a duck pond last week. They're supposed to be sleeping 500ft away, not actually showing off in good sunlight.  Eurasian or Hybrid Wigeon by Icybacon, on Flickr Given the little bit of green, it could be a hybrid American/Eurasian, but apparently this is common in legit Eurasians so I'm waiting on serious birder opinion.
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I'm back from Tasmania, but I have a backlog of three trips to grind through, all of which include at least a few antipodian birdies. Black-faced Cormorants  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 4 Tranmere 12 by Execudork, on Flickr A little later on the same drive as the above, I stopped to take pictures of the canal at Lauderdale on the South Arm peninsula. As I parked, I noticed the car in front of me on the side of the road had an enormous lens sticking out of the driver's window. I carefully and as quietly as I could got out and walked around behind him, so I could look down his sight line to see what he was pointing that thing at - a flock of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos in a tree in someone's backyard. They startled and took off almost as soon as I saw them, flew right over us, and settled in a big tree in the green space beside the canal. I was shooting with my Sigma 100-300mm f/darkness, which doesn't play nice with autofocus, so I was pretty happy to get anything other than a blurry mess.  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 5 Birdstop 1 by Execudork, on Flickr  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 5 Birdstop 2 by Execudork, on Flickr  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 5 Birdstop 3 by Execudork, on Flickr Since he had his enormous lens out, I decided to follow suit and broke out my 500mm.  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 5 Birdstop 6 by Execudork, on Flickr The cockatoos weren't being particularly co-operative, but a Noisy Miner was happy to pose on a branch just inside the minimum focus distance of my lens. This was the first time I had to actually back up with my tripod to get a shot of a bird.  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 5 Birdstop 7 by Execudork, on Flickr The guy with the giant lens, which turned out to be some gigantic Canon thing mounted on a 1D, was very friendly and we chatted for a bit about birds in Tasmania. He pointed out a duck with her ducklings on the far side of the canal, who apparently had started the day with three ducklings only to have one taken by a Pacific gull.  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 5 Birdstop 8 by Execudork, on Flickr His wife showed up, with a look on her face of amused resignation. I thought she was thinking "Oh great, my husband has found some other nut to talk to endlessly about birds birds birds birds..." Then another cormorant  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 5 Birdstop 11 by Execudork, on Flickr
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ExecuDork posted:
That's awesome. I don't think I would ever get over seeing Cockatoo's just flying around in the wild or the fact that many of them could have been born decades before me (assuming they live anywhere close to as long in the wild as they do in captivity).
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I didn't even think of the age thing - some of those birds could have been flying around, eating fruit and just chillin' in big gum trees since way back when my lens was new!  GULLS!  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 6 Viewstop 9 by Execudork, on Flickr and Herons!  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 7 Arm End 5 by Execudork, on Flickr  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 7 Arm End 6 by Execudork, on Flickr  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 7 Arm End 7 by Execudork, on Flickr  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 7 Arm End 8 by Execudork, on Flickr  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 7 Arm End 9 by Execudork, on Flickr  SD 117 Around Hobart Pt 7 Arm End 27 by Execudork, on Flickr
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Duck spam. Deal with it.   small-1800 by jankyangles, on Flickr  small-1825 by jankyangles, on Flickr  small-1847 by jankyangles, on Flickr edit:  rotate. Whoops. small-1867 by jankyangles, on Flickr  small-1993 by jankyangles, on Flickr  small-1928 by jankyangles, on Flickr Thoughts on IS/VR? This VR on the Tamron 70-300 (D3100) I'm using is really god drat good for still stuff but I'm wondering how much its loving up by tracking a moving target on this low budget crop sensor frame. I really don't ever step down below 1/1250 when shooting birds and today seemed like I was getting everything just past in focus when it felt like I nailed the shot. :/ Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Duck spam. Deal with it. If you're panning at high shutter speeds I would just turn VR off.
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THE BIRD GOD GIVETH: Greylag Geese by The original David L, on Flickr  Brown Pelican by The original David L, on Flickr AND THE BIRD GOD TAKETH AWAY... INTJ Mastermind fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Mar 3, 2013 |
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Mar 3, 2013 08:54
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One more because geese are awesome! "OH GOD THIS HAS NOT GONE WELL!"
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I think this is the first I've seen one of these in MI. brown creeper by philip painter, on Flickr  brown creeper by philip painter, on Flickr  chickadee by philip painter, on Flickr
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Got a new (24 year old) Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 push-pull. I am pretty excited with the results on my D200. falcon by pboutell, on Flickr  falcon by pboutell, on Flickr  birdie by pboutell, on Flickr
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INTJ Mastermind posted:One more because geese are awesome! Haha this is awesome. My only advice would be to crop out some of the highlights in the water or tone them down in photoshop. They are so distracting I almost missed the awesomeness that is this photo.
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I haven't posted some owl shots for a while. Time to fix that.  smallmouth posted:
INTJ Mastermind posted:THE BIRD GOD GIVETH: smallmouth posted:I think this is the first I've seen one of these in MI. INTJ Mastermind posted:One more because geese are awesome!
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InternetJunky posted:Nice job on these. I've chased them everywhere in my kayak and I don't think I've gotten a decent picture yet. I would probably crop a bit of the room off the left. Thanks! I'll have to play with the crop again. Yeah, I caught him eating something. I'm not sure it's a bug, as it's still freezing here. Beautiful owl pics, as always.
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Mr. Despair posted:If you're panning at high shutter speeds I would just turn VR off. Thanks, gonna give it a whirl. Also taking my AF training wheels off and using a button for it instead of using half press shutter. This is getting complicated in a hurry. Edit  DSC_2061 by jankyangles, on Flickr Finally intercepted my kid after school so I'd have help with bread and such last week. Came across a Great Blue so I set up my shooting position and sent the kid to spook the heron towards me. Heron decided "NOPE" and just bounced around the kid. I've never seen that kind of behavior as they usually bolt pretty quick. What I didn't notice until later is that right off frame there's some fisherman with their catches in a bucket behind them. The heron was stealing fish every few minutes. Also, introducing a city kid to a huge bird he's never seen before is hilarious.
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Got some birds at my feeder finally. house finch pair by philip painter, on Flickr This red tailed hawk hangs out on campus. I imagine all the super-fat squirrels are easy pickins.  red tailed hawk by philip painter, on Flickr
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smallmouth posted:I think this is the first I've seen one of these in MI. Nice, I haven't been able to get a shot of a brown creeper yet, they have some pretty good camouflage when they're on a tree and their back is to you
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Spent all day trying to get used to back button focus. Ruined quite a bit but I'm sticking with it. Still managed to catch at least a few neat shots. Couple of Coots duking it out.  small-2439 by jankyangles, on Flickr  small-2249 by jankyangles, on Flickr This one is kinda sad. A fisherman hooked this heron right in the neck (and subsequently thought it was hilarious  ). A park employee managed to get the line off but the hook is still in it's neck. We called Game & Fish and they said they would send someone out but after waiting around for 2 hours I had to leave.  small-2357 by jankyangles, on Flickr It did manage to finally take a short flight as I was leaving but it was pretty awkward.
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